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	BRITISH ART COLLECTION

		Henry Moore 1898-1986

		His work was shown in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, from then on Moore was regarded as an artist of international stature.

		Matt Collishaw b 1966

		Photographer, sculptor and filmmaker. Much of his work contains historical and art-historical references to the interaction between nature and culture

		Peter Kinley 1926-1988

		He is fascinated by lslamic art and architecture, in paritcular the conventions of Egyptian wall painting with its hieratic treatment of objects. This fascination informed his work for the rest of his life.

		Tord Boontje b 1968

		Many of his designs are inspired by the fields and forests of his childhood, and feature flowers, animals and butterflies.

		Ivor Abrahams b 1935

		His themes have concentrated on the human figure, the garden and classical landscape.

		Andy Goldsworthy b 1956

		He uses nature as a ‘found object’ and underline his interest in the ‘movement, light, growth and decay’ of the natural world.

		Marc Quinn b1964

		Much of his work has been concerned with preserving the living form and presenting it as art.

		Edward Burra 1905-1976

		Burra only worked in watercolour as a childhood illness had left him crippled with arthritis and oil paint was too heavy for him to handle with dexterity.

		Graham Sutherland 1903-1980

		During the Second World War Sutherland was appointed as an official war artist recording bomb damage The group of works he produced, explore the shape of the land, conveying the emergence of the half-human, half-organic figures from the rise and fall of the hills and valleys.

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